Hey, my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and we're trying to figure out whether or not Galatians worked.

We have one clue that says it probably did. That being that the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15 seems to affirm the letter of Galatians.

That's great. Nice job, Galatians. This is encouraging, but I'm not satisfied with that. We've got to dig deeper.

And so right now we're in the

middle of a two-day conversation, trying to look at clue number two, which centers around a

promising young man produced by Galatian churches probably after they received the letter of Galatians.

So we're working that through. We started it yesterday. We're going to finish it today. If you missed yesterday's, today's going to make a lot more sense.

If you go back and catch that one first. All right, Jeffrey, music please. And we'll get right

back to it.

So there's a disciple named Timothy. He lived there. His mother was a Jewish and a believer,

but his father was Greek. Now, see, that is pretty interesting. This kid, Timothy, is

uncircumcised, but we find out that he's from this wonderful pedigree of faith,

faithfulness toward God. His grandmother was a woman named Lois. His mother was a woman named

Eunice. And apparently they really taught him up in the Bible, the scriptures, and what you have here

is a young man who, like

Nehemiah in the Old Testament, seems to maybe have a sense of the moment and where he fits into

it, but also his dad is Greek. We don't learn much about him. Who knows what happened to his dad? Maybe

Paul kind of comes in and in a mentor way fills that role. But this is a dude who has a foot in

both worlds. Then Paul has a foot in both worlds politically, but not ethnically. He's Jewish.

And you and I, you know, we live in the age of multiculturalism and kind of a mushing together of all of the world's cultures.

And so we're very conditioned to think, man, why are people getting all been out of shape

about like who's from where, what the deal is?

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